The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 82
The king his father was much surprised at the change which had come over his son, who generally passed all his time in hunting or hawking, and his anxiety was increased by a conversation he overheard between two of his courtiers that they feared the prince must be going out of his mind, so moody had he become.
Who acts: change, son, Tulip, king, prince, moody · What happens: surprise, come, pass, increase, overhear, fear · To what, where: king, change, hunting, anxiety, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, son, Tulip, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | aux:pass |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 surprised | advmod |
| 7 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 change | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 change | det |
| 10 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 change | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 20 passed | advmod |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 son | acl:relcl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 time | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 time | nmod:poss |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hunting | case |
| 25 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 hawking | cc |
| 27 | hawking | hawking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hunting | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 increased | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 increased | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 anxiety | nmod:poss |
| 31 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 increased | aux:pass |
| 33 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 surprised | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 conversation | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 conversation | det |
| 36 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 overheard | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 overheard | nsubj |
| 38 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 increased | parataxis |
| 39 | between | between | ADP | _ | 40 two | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 overheard | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 courtiers | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 43 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 two | nmod |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 feared | mark |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 feared | nsubj |
| 46 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 overheard | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 prince | det |
| 48 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 going | nsubj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 going | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 going | aux |
| 51 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 feared | ccomp |
| 52 | out | out | ADP | _ | 55 mind | case |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 mind | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 mind | nmod:poss |
| 55 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 going | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 had | punct |
| 57 | so | so | ADV | _ | 58 moody | advmod |
| 58 | moody | moody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 had | nsubj |
| 59 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | advcl |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 become | nsubj |
| 61 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 had | xcomp |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past · passive | the king | the change | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the change | over Tulip's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over son=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | Tulip's son | hunting or hawking | time | generally property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hunting=Location | ||
| 4 | increase | past · passive | Tulip's anxiety | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | overhear | past | Tulip | by a conversation; between two of Tulip's courtiers | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | fear | past | king | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | go out | must · progressive | the prince | Tulip's mind | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | have | past | moody | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | become | infinitive | Tulip | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | mind | Tulip | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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